the devil never sleeps

Lyrics

dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea, dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz cut friends and me, no one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone, everybody bitching, "there's nothing on the radio", dreaming again of a city full of fathers in their army clothes, all of us lost at the crosswalk waiting for the other to go, someone bet a dollar that my daddy wasn't coming home, everybody bitching, "there's nothing on the radio", dreaming again that it's freezing and my mother's in her flowerbed, changing her face like a shadow on the gravel, this is what she said, "no one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone", everybody bitching, "there's nothing on the radio"